Nuclear warfare
A community portal about Nuclear warfare with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Nuclear warfare, or atomic warfare, is a war in which nuclear weapons are used. In the history of nuclear weapons, they have only ever... [more]
A community portal about Nuclear warfare with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Nuclear warfare, or atomic warfare, is a war in which nuclear weapons are used. In the history of nuclear weapons, they have only ever been used twice in a state of war, and only by one side in the confrontation, the USA. Today the term usually refers to confrontations in which opposing sides are both armed with nuclear weapons.
Airmen punished for nuclear error The US Air Force has relieved several officers of their commands after a B-52 bomber was mistakenly flown across the US loaded with nuclear-armed missiles. Three colonels, a lieutenant colonel and 66 other personnel were punished following the incident at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, on 29 August. Maj Gen Richard Newton said ground crews had failed to follow procedures. The incident has been described as one of the worst known breaches of nuclear...
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There is a hidden bonus of over £2bn to US corporations if the government goes ahead with building new nuclear warheads. American firm Lockheed Martin has a large share in the management and ownership of the UK's nuclear weapons factories at Aldermaston. It is also owns a company called Insys, whose purpose is to tell you and me through the government whether Aldermaston is doing a good job. Documents obtained from the libraries of successive US presidents show that the US has not only...
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Do you suppose the next ‘mistake’ was to ‘accidentally’ dispatch this airplane to the Persian Gulf? From DefenseTech: “The Explosion Did Seem a Bit Large-ish . . .” This just showed up on the AP wire: A B-52 bomber was mistakenly loaded with five nuclear warheads during a flight from North Dakota to Louisiana, a military newspaper reported Wednesday. The bomber carried advanced cruise missiles as part of a Defense Department program to retire 400 of the missiles, the paper said, quoting...
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If nuclear warfare one day turns the majority of humans into flesh-eating zombies, I suspect Huntsville would be a great place to feast on brains.
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Stranded and left for dead on a planet with a deployed thermo-nuclear weapon ticking somewhere, their only chance of escape lies deep within hostile territory.
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Paul J. Early was part of the Navy's first generation of nuclear submariners, and he experienced the triumph and tragedy of undersea warfare during more than 30 years in uniform.
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A squadron comprising the nuclear-powered battle cruiser Peter the Great, the anti-submarine warfare ship Admiral Chabanenko and two supply ships from the Russian Navy's Northern Fleet recently entered the ...
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